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rung the awful notes of a dying
woman's voice.
"Raoul, Raoul! where are you? Je
me meurs, mon ami"
1t was the voice of high-born lady.
For what reason know not turned
toward the picture. 1t seemed the cry
that should come from those lips. The
| Cure had started like man who is sud-
denly stabbed.
Mon Dieu, mon Dicu!' he cried.
| "WhOse voice is that?'
And with this cry he turned toward
the picture.
"RaOul, Raoul! You must come
quickly or it will be too late.''
ut is old Bette that is calling you,
NJ. lie Cure said Jeanette, pointing
to the room above. 1T is her voice, is
it not?''
"Bette's?" stammered the Cure, ''the
old peasant woman's? No, no, no! 1t
was Mireille's. But
meanwhile. Monsieur" said jean
| nette, 1.-THE old woman dies"
Il CO." said the Cure.
u did not follow him; had some feel
ing that there would be something sol
emn-something sacred was to be re-
| vealed in this last interview between
the old Cure and his dying servant. /
knew that, great as may be the devotion
| and self-sacrifice of the man, the self
sacrifice and the devotion of the wo-
man that loves him, or has loved him,
can be UNNECESSARILY greater. and / be-
| lieved that the Cure would find out
that his lifelong penance had had even
on this earth its passing great reward,
and that the love Of the woman he had
worshiped in his youth had been with
him and around him, silent, watchful.
/ all these years.
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guides rushed toward him to pull him back.
when they heard him say: II almost
have it.n as ne fell 2O0) feet. Birds OF
nrey were seen few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually to
the place where the corpse lay. why seek
flowers on the edge of preclplce When you
may walk knee deep amid the tull blooms oi
sit at kings banquet why will he &c, down
the steps and contend for the gristle and
bones of hounds kennel!
"Sweeter than honey and the honeycomh,"
saws David, sis the truth of God" WIN
honey out of the rock would have satlsiled
thee" saws God to the recreant. Here Is
honey gathered fros the blossoms OF trees OF
life. and with q rod made out of the wood OF
the cross l dip it up for all your souls
The poet Hesiod tells Of an am.
brosia and a nectar the drinking OF
which would make men live forever;
and one sip of this honey from the Eternal
Rock will give you immortal me win s;nP,; mq
life. Come and live on the uplands OF grace
where the vineyards sun themselves. OI,
taste and see that the Lord is gracious. Bc
happy now and happy forever For thosn
who take different course the honey VIII
turn to gall For many things have ad-
mired Percy Shelley, the great Enghsn poee:
hnt I deplore the fact that it was great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem
HOueen Nab" has in it the maligning OF the
deity. The infldel poet was impions enough
to ask for Rowland Hills Surrey chapel that
he might denounce, the Christian ia n reliSiehh I on
truth. But he visited Italy, and one day on
the Mediterranean with two friends in toat
which was twenty-rour feet long, he was
coming toward shore when an hours squall
struck the water. A gentleman standing on
shore through glass saw many boats tossed
in this squall, but all outrode the terror eX,
cept one, that in which Shelley, the infidel ,
poet, and his two frien Is were sailing That
never came ashore, but the bodies OF two OF
the occupants were washed upon the beach,
one of them the poet. A funeral pyre was
built on the sea shore by some classic friends
and the two bodies were consumed; Poor
Shelley! He would have no God while ne
lived and he probably had no God when ne
died. "The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall
perish" Beware of the forbidden honey!
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A Soul.Sayinc Scheme,

Governor Colauitt gives some telling facts
concerning the workings of prohibition in
Atlanta. This is city OF sXtyfve thousand
was as wicked as most cities while liquor
ruled; one of its streets was lined with
saloons, no lady could walk through it with
safety, and the bravest man dreaded to even
ride through it at night Now its saloons are
closed and young girl may safely traverse
it by day or night, and she will not hear a
profane word. There were hundred and
fifty saloons in Atlanta, and croakers prophe-
sled that these, hundred and fifty buildings,
would stand empty. Every single one Of
them is occupied, many of them with stores
where healthful food, instead Of destroying
drink, is sold. Property has increased from
ten to thirty per cent. The Senator remarked
that he did not like to discuss the financial
benefits of prohibition to Atlanta; great as
they are, they are dwarfed into insigniicance
by the response to Christ's momentous ques-
tion: "What shall it profit q man if he gain
the whole world and lose his own soul?" He
likes best to consider prohibition rs soul
saving scheme, for such it has proved to At
lanta. AS soon as liquor was turned out, the
spirit of God had chance on mems hearts,
and a wonderful revival followed. To-day
there is not city on earth that is more truly
Christian than Atlanta; Z, ,000men and women
have been added to the church since the adop-
tion of prohibition. "Is the law enforced,
and will it continue to be:' "Yes, just as
long as $500 fines and imprisonment follow
its infraction, prohibition will prohibit. ~
Union SiQnQl,
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PuSiy'S MYSTERIOUS Fate.

There is a family in this city who have
as servants an Irish girl as cook and an
English one rs second girl. The later
has been but short time in this country,
and has q particular ayers on to the fam
lily cat, while the feline pet has the good
fortune to bask in the sunlight OF the
cooks favor. For two or three days the
cat was missing, and the cook, after hunt
ing everywhere she thought it possihl.
for the animal to be. asked the seco |
girl: Louisa, you haven't done a..
thing to the cat, have yonl" "Done ii y
thing with the cats" repeated tn" id
dressed. II ate it." Gaze the cat"" C ic1
ths cook in horror. 'Faix. t.;cn, I'll
give notice to lave immediate':. I'll not
he under the same roos with laythcn-
80 I won't. t.-Eo tan Budget.
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An Interesting Plant Duel.

Some time ago my pupils were much
interested in finding what they not inap-
propriately termed hand-to-hand con-
fiict between sumach and a climbi1r
bitter sweet. Judging from appearance
when found, the sumach was about two
inches in diameter when the bitter sweet
first wound its coils about it. AS the
growth of each proceeded, the coils be-
came tighter and tighter, cutting into
and through the bark and growing layer
of the sumach which seemed to be
threatened with strangulation. 1t was
not, however, to be so easily vanquished.
1t resolutely kept up its manufacture OF
new material, which, owing to the tight
embrace of the vine, had to be dis.
tributed along a spiral line Immediately
above the coils. Just below the coils the
supply appeared to be cut off, as the
trunk was then shrivcled and in most
places dead. Although rendered unsightly
the tree presented the curious features of
having two spirals, one of living and grow
ing, the other of dead and dccaying ma
terial wound about its heart wood, so
that the whole resembled huge anger.
To avenge this deformity the sumach pro-
ceeded to push its new growth out above
and over the coils of the vine until at
one place it had completely enconpassed
it. The vine, in turn, was now so tightly
squeezed as to cut off from communica-
tion with the ground, and below this
point but little life remained. Victory
now seemed within the grasp of the
sumach. The vine, however, in the last
extremity now united itself with the
growing layer of the sumach, and thus
literally drew from the camp of the
enemy whatever supplies were needed to
keep its top bright and thrifty. At this
stage the conflict was cut short by the
axe of the collector, and the combatauts,
locked in each others arms, were laid
away among the curiosities of museum.
Journal Of Education.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Cleverness is sort of genius for instru-
mentality. 1t is the brain Of the hand.
Humility leads to the highest distinc-
ton, because it leads to sclf-improve-
ment.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity,
and truth accomplishes no victories
without it.
The manner of saying or doing any
thing goes great way toward the value
of the thing itself.
1t is better to have thorns in the flesh,
with grace to endure them, than to have
no thorns and no grace.
In the loss of an object we do not pro-
portion our grief to its real vGlue, but to
the value our fancies set upon it.
The man who doesn't know much, and
his name is legion, is the one most
anxious to display his knowledge.
The love of singularity proceeds from
a restless mind, possessing some portion
of genius and large portion of vanity.
Oppression makes wise men bad; but
the distemper is still the madness of the
Wise, WulCu Is UCIlCI Iuuu lllS oODAASNy
of fools.
A happiness that is quite undisturbed
becomes tiresome. We must have ups
and downs. The difficulties which are
mingled with love awaken passion and
increase pleasure.
There is this difference between those
two temporal blessings, health and
money: Money is the most envied, but
the least enjoyed; health is the most en-
loved. but the least cnvied.
Every increase of knowledge may pos
sibly render depravity more depraved, as
we'll as it may increase the strength of
virtue. 1t is in itself only power, and
its value depends on its application.
Yesterday is yours no longer; to-
morrow may never be yours; but to-day
is yours, the living present is yours, and
in the living present you may stretch
forward to the things that are before.
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Settling an Old Score.

An old citizen, a gentleman of high
social and official standing in st. Joseph,
tells story of the famous Missoart
Governor, Bob Stewart, which, true TO.
the letter, proves that fact is stranger
than fiction.
81 was coming up the Missouri River
when was boy, said the Ex-Governor"
and was working my way on . steam
boat. At point where we had to wood
up I didn't carry as big load as some
of the roustabouts, nor move with thas.
agility that the others did, for I was not
strong and had been tenderly raised.
The mate became enraged at my slow
movements on the gangplank, and he
gave me a kick and sent me ashore, and
confscated my buffalo robe as payment
for my passage to that point: I never
saw that mate again until I had been In
augurated Governor of this State.
zone, day wandering through the
wards and districts of the penitentiary,
l saw that mate working at forge. He
had been sent there for killing, in
passion, a man under his command. I
knew him instantly, and I directed the
warden to send the man to the Guberna-
torial mansion in the garb of gentle
man. When the man arrived I took him
into my private Office and asked him II
he recognized me. "Do you remember
one time, at such and such place, Of
kicking boy and sending him ashore
who had been working in your gangs"
"The man said: NO, don't remember
it; but it svery likely that ! did it,
"'Well,' says I, 4 am that boy, and
here is your pardon. I always thought
would get even with you ~
"The tears came to the old mans eyes,
and he said: well, Governor, to be q
mate in those days man had to be q.
dog -
"'You played we'll your part I said
Now leave here and don't let me see you
again
'As he made his exit I gave him an
able-bodied kick, and little Bob Stewart
had got even with that big steamboat
mate.
"Sounds like romance, don't ita
Yes. But every word is true, I need
barely say, sir. ."-S. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.
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North Carolina's Gem. Bearing Ground

Some years ago Edison, the electric
wizard, was convinced that platinum e1.
listed in North Carolina. He seut Will
lam Earl Hidden, an accomplished
mineralogist, in search of it. Professor
Hidden little knew at the time how full
of results to him that pursuit of platinum
would be. He could not find the de-
sired mineral, but he found something
far better. Being in Alexander county,
a quiet part of the State, many miles
from railway, he was directed by Mr..
J. A. D. Stephenson to gem bearing
bearing ground, and looking q little
more narrowly, found some of the gems.
He purchased some land, returned to
Edison. and reported his vain quest of
platinum, then came back to North Caro-
lima. He went to work to develop his
mine. Sinking shaft in simple way,
he gradually made the opening larger
until specifically the mine represented
the aspect of stone quarry. Out of this
rude pit in the earth were taken un-
numbered gelns-one hitherto unknown
To this Mr.. J. Lawrence Smith, of st.
Louis, an eminent scientist, gave Hid
den's name, and "Hiddenite, the equiva-
lent of the diamond in value, became in
stantly the fashion. Its tender tinted
green crystals, its intense hardness and
its new beauties when cut, were only
some of its charms. From the day Of
its discovery to the present it has been b
hopeless task to supply the demand for
it. Every Hiddenite found is already
purchased long in advance.
But strange as is this flashing green
miracle of the earth, the place of it's birth
is still stranger. The laborers who afe
working in the mine handle their picks
with the greatest care. They are on the
watch for "pockets." Possibly for an
hour the digging goes on and mo-
"pocket "is struck. Presently the pick
goes into an opening, with tender fingers
the earth is partially removed and finally
the miner feels with his hands every por-
tion of the walls of the opening. 1t may
happen that his search is in vain, but it
is oftener the case that his fingers touch
little crystals that are so imbedded in
the sides of the pocket that their points
project outward. They are carefully
picked out. Perhaps all are beryls, per-
haps there are dozen kinds of gems, OK
yet again it may be that there are only
Hiddcnitcs. Sometimes gems worth
hundreds of dollars are thus taken from
one pocket Globe Democrat.
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The Anti-Liauor Crusade.

In contradiction to other reports concern
ing Maine, Neal Dow's latest utterance is as
follows:
"Many years ago the people of Maine con-
sumed more strong drink than any other
State in the Union. Mr.. Blaine, writing on
the subject, said that at one time no people
in the country used such enormous quantities
of liquor as did the people of this State. To-
day we can say that no State in the Union
uses so little Mr.. Blaine has also said that
no State has prospered so remarkably during
the last twenty years as Maine. There is
cause for all this change. Temptation for
strong drink has been put out Of the way.
Years ago there were great industries carried
on here. Tho lumber trade employed large
a great many more. These products were
nearly all exported to the West Indies and
other southern countries, and bartered for rum
and molasseS The owners of the saw mills
and the fishermen never made the State one
dollar richer, and the only results Of their
industry were population of topers dilap..
idated school houses, shiftless farmers and
decaying farm buildings.
When Blaine said that Maine is the most
prosperous State in the Union he spoke the
truth. The dilapidated buildings are being
repaired or replaced by new ones, handsome
in architecture and substantial in structure,
and the almost hopeless poverty is giving
away to vigorous industry intelligence and
wealth. BY careful estimates, this State now
saves, directly and Indirectly, the sum OF
S24 900, 900 yearly. In face of these facts it
is a great wrong for DR.. Crosby to say that
the Maine law is a failure. All other public
interests shrink into insignifcance when
compared with this question, and the cause
can hardly have more dangerous barrier in
its way than statements like that of DR..
Crosby's. They are dangerous because we
have struggled for more than O quarter Of q
century before the eyes Of the nation, and If
successful our example will be followed by
every State in the Union. Such men should
be informed, so that they will never repeat
such statements as that Of the clergyman
refer to.
The fact that the larger proportion of in
temperance has been banished; the fact that
Of the seventy open grog shops that fourished
in the city of Portland twenty-five years ago
not one remains; the fact that no liquor is
now imported from the West Indies and the
barrels Of rum that once occupied acres Of
land at the Portland wharves after the un-
loading Of cargoes are abolished-do not all
these facts signify progress in one direction
or the other? Were not three.fourths of the
jails empty six months after the law was
passed! But people say they do not under
stand why the grog shops in the larger cities
are allowed to exist. That is the key to the
situation. After our thirty years Of trying
to work out the great problem, people point
to a fe7 of the larger cities and say, "Look
at Maine" 1t is easily seen why the putting
out of the way Of such obstacles to the cause
as this is of the utmost Importance. Most of
the saloon-keepers. except those Of Bangor,
dispose Of their rum on the sly"
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From Africa to Glory.

Mrs. De. Heer, writing of the flor the
present disbanded Bonita School, says:
Nearly all tho girls we dismissed had re-
ceived sufficient education to fit them for any
position they will be called to occupy. Since
our last communion six of the members Of
our church have been called to the church
above; all died in the faith, and some Of
them in full triumph. One was younger
sister Of Ulunda lin the group Of Bonita
women, June Woman's Work., and had
been accustomed to look up to her for
counsel, but when near the end, she said:
"Now you can teach me no moro, Jesus has
sent for me to come, and he will be my
teacher" Another said: "This room is full
of glory; they are coming for me-" and 50
she passed away. We can but rejoice that
they are safely over, for their lives hold
much of temptation and little joy. Our Mis-
sion is weak in numbers, and we hardly
know what the near future holds for us, but
One knows, and we can trust Him.
[Woman's Work for Woman.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Asking.


"If ye then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children; how much more
shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy
Spirit to them that ask Him?-St. Luke
xi, Is.
80 Heavenly Father, Thou hast told
OF q gift more precious than pearls and goldi
A gift that is free to every one,
Through Jesus Christ, Thy only Son;
For His sake give it to me.
30 give it to me, for Jesus said,
That father giveth his children Bread.
And how much more Thou wilt surely give
The gift by which the dead shall live!
For Christ's sake, give it to me.
81 cannot see, and want the sight;
I am in the dark and want the Light;
I want to pray, and don't know how,
o give me Thy Holy Spirit nowl
For Christ's sake, give it to me-
"Thou hast said it, I must believe.
1t is only ASK and shall receive;
If Thou didst say it, it must be true,
And there's nothing else for me to dol
For Christ's sake, give it to me.
$50 come and ask, because my need
Is very great and real indeed.
On the strength of Thy Word come and say
Oh, let Thy Word come true to-day
For Christ's sake, give it to mem
miss F. R. Havergal.
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TEMPERANCE.
Vision of HOrsemen.

Vision OF Horsemen.
Lift up your eyes ye tainting souls,
And see the horsemen moutGd:
The Leaders chariot onward rolls,
Followed by hosts uncounted;
Upon the mountain sides
The legions form,
In fire and storm
The royal banner rides.
Oh have we thought the years were slow
To take the evil from US,
Though we have known from long ago
The worldwide written PROMISE?
The mountains are alive,
Look up and see!
The brave and free
Swarm as the we'll filled hive.
The vision changes; 10, it seems
No more dim ideal;
1t is no picture of our dreams,
The battle front is real;
1t is the Leaders shout!
The change is made,
The peoples raid
Has reached the foes redoubt.
Do ye still ask who is for us?
The air reveals the token;
Hear ye the royal syllabus,
Jehovah's word is spoken:
The curse of Christendom
Must feel his ire,
In storm and fire
The evil must succumb.
In prayers and songs, in vows and votes,
The nation joins its forces;
The mist beyond the mountain floats
The horsemen see and horsesI
Come up ye States! behold
Our captain leads,
The victory speeds,
Bring up your stars Of goldl
There's panic in the Rum-Lord's halls,
Though wild with drunken laughter;
A finger writes upon the walls:
Wait ye what cometh after;
Before his palace doors,
Behold with dread
He hears the tread
or coming conquerors.
The heights are full Of armies swift,
And prayer is breathing under;
Wait ye and see the darkness lift,
After the bolted thunder
Shall drive away in scorn
Our gilded curse,
And then rehearse
In song land newborn.
-Dwight Williams, in the Voice.
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Fifty Years Ago.

Half century ago seven humble shoe
makers in shop in Hamburg undertook the
work of evangelizetion on the principle of
individual responsibility. In twenty years
they had organized fifty churches, gathered
ten thousand converts, distributed four hum
dred thousand Bibles and eight million pages
of tracts, and preach ed the Gospel to fifty
millions Of people. As they went from
place to place the york grew and nd, new sS,cs con,
helpers; so that population as great as that
of the United States, or Of the Congo Free
State, heard the Gospel within those twenty
years. If any are distrustful Of mere arith-
metic as applied to the problem Of missions,
here is practical proof that it is perfectly
feasible SO to organize the work as to reach
a hundred millions of people every year, and
that, too, with only an insignificant Gideon's
band.-[Rev. A. T. Pierson. D. D.
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COWardly CarnivGra.

The prevalent idea entertained by
those not familiar with the real nature OF
our large carnivorous euadrupeds, that
their instructive ferocity impels them to
assault every person they meet, is not
sustained, says General Marcy in Outing,
by practical experience. Those animals
appear much more formidable in the
distance than when approached in their
own native wids.
But few Eastern sportsmen would, 1t
is believed, voluntarily attack bear,
wolf or panther, yet / have seen and
killed many of those animals, and not
one of them ever turned upon me. And
in further corroboration of this, my
guide, Little Bat, who has during his
lifetime, killed over 80 grizzlies, assured
me that all he ever met with invariably
ran from him. So confident was he of his
ability to cope with these mach-dreaded
monsters, that he did not hesitate to hunt
them when alone and on foot, and only
two years ago he encountered four
grizzlies eating dead elk upon Caspar
mountains, when he crawled to within
short rifle range and shot every one of
them without moving from his tracks;
and upon another occasion, while VIC
were hunting in the valley of the Zig
Horn, he went out alone during moon
light night and shot two grizzlies from
behind a tree.
Panthers and wolves are most srrant
towards, and the traditional story OF
General Putnam having performed an eS-
traordinary feat of courage, by entering
Il cave and shooting a wolf, is supremely
laushable when contrasted with the fact
that my wife, upon one occasion, in the
night time at frontier post, when
LARGE black wolf had purloined one of
her turkeys and was dragging it of, hur-
ricd out and with stick made him drop
the bird and run away.